Optical Store SEries: Flash Optik

2013 / Flash Atölye, Izmir, Turkey

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As a re-enactment, Hur opens a fictional optical store that the artist's father once used to own in South Korea in a shop front space in Izmir, Turkey. While the frames of her father's optical store for the project are lost with Turkey custom, the artist ends up drawing her mother posing in the optical store on the wall, larger than life size with multiple custom papers from Turkish government that shows failed attempts to trace the lost optical frames. Hur connects with her father via Skype at the opening of her father's fictional optical store.Supported by Flash Atolye